Karin Lucia Gisler is a qualified counsellor, youth mentor, group program facilitator, and family support practitioner dedicated to helping young people, adults, and parents navigate life’s transitions with confidence and clarity. Through Karin Lucia Gisler Counselling, she offers a calm, grounded, person-centred approach and a deeply relational style of support.
Karin holds a Diploma of Counselling, a Diploma of Youth Work, an Advanced Study Major in Family Therapy, and brings over 10 years of experience supporting young people and parents. This allows her to work confidently with teens, adults, and families experiencing challenges such as communication difficulties, emotional overwhelm, self-esteem and body-image concerns, changing family dynamics, relationship stress, and major life transitions. Her counselling approach is strength-based, trauma-informed, and shaped by ACT, CBT, and person-centred modalities. She offers in-person, online, and Walk-and-Talk sessions, creating a safe and compassionate space where clients feel seen, supported, and understood.
Before becoming a counsellor, Karin spent many years working in youth empowerment. She trained under Katharine Krueger, founder of Journey of Young Women (JOYW), and later served as a senior instructor for over five years. This experience deeply shaped her ability to design and deliver evidence-informed wellbeing programs, guide young people through coming-of-age transitions, support parents, and create meaningful group experiences that build confidence, resilience, and connection.
Karin’s work is influenced by a blend of professional training, diverse holistic studies, and rich lived experience. She is a graduate of the School of Shamanic Womancraft, a Traditional Thai Massage practitioner and teacher, a qualified Australian Bush Flower Essence (ABFE) practitioner, and holds a Swiss Drogist diploma—a medical qualification focused on chemical and natural medicines. Over the past 30 years, her extensive travels and time spent living cross-culturally have broadened her understanding of wellbeing, human connection, ritual, and the wisdom held within diverse communities around the world.
As a mother of two teens, Karin brings lived insight to her work with families, offering a grounded and compassionate presence. A Byron Shire local for over 18 years, she has also traveled extensively and participated in Women’s Circles for more than 25 years. Karin continues to weave therapeutic support, mentorship, and nature-based wisdom into her offerings — always with the intention of helping people feel more at home in themselves.
Above all, Karin believes in the power of gentle guidance, clear communication, and nurturing inner strength. Whether working with a young person, an adult, or a family, her aim is simple: to create a space where people can grow, heal, and reconnect with who they truly are.
“Imagine the ripple effect of change young people can create in our communities if they have learned how to be daring, confident, empowered — and, most importantly, true to themselves.”
Karin holds a Diploma of Counselling, a Diploma of Youth Work, an Advanced Study Major in Family Therapy, and brings over 10 years of experience supporting young people and parents. This allows her to work confidently with teens, adults, and families experiencing challenges such as communication difficulties, emotional overwhelm, self-esteem and body-image concerns, changing family dynamics, relationship stress, and major life transitions. Her counselling approach is strength-based, trauma-informed, and shaped by ACT, CBT, and person-centred modalities. She offers in-person, online, and Walk-and-Talk sessions, creating a safe and compassionate space where clients feel seen, supported, and understood.
Before becoming a counsellor, Karin spent many years working in youth empowerment. She trained under Katharine Krueger, founder of Journey of Young Women (JOYW), and later served as a senior instructor for over five years. This experience deeply shaped her ability to design and deliver evidence-informed wellbeing programs, guide young people through coming-of-age transitions, support parents, and create meaningful group experiences that build confidence, resilience, and connection.
Karin’s work is influenced by a blend of professional training, diverse holistic studies, and rich lived experience. She is a graduate of the School of Shamanic Womancraft, a Traditional Thai Massage practitioner and teacher, a qualified Australian Bush Flower Essence (ABFE) practitioner, and holds a Swiss Drogist diploma—a medical qualification focused on chemical and natural medicines. Over the past 30 years, her extensive travels and time spent living cross-culturally have broadened her understanding of wellbeing, human connection, ritual, and the wisdom held within diverse communities around the world.
As a mother of two teens, Karin brings lived insight to her work with families, offering a grounded and compassionate presence. A Byron Shire local for over 18 years, she has also traveled extensively and participated in Women’s Circles for more than 25 years. Karin continues to weave therapeutic support, mentorship, and nature-based wisdom into her offerings — always with the intention of helping people feel more at home in themselves.
Above all, Karin believes in the power of gentle guidance, clear communication, and nurturing inner strength. Whether working with a young person, an adult, or a family, her aim is simple: to create a space where people can grow, heal, and reconnect with who they truly are.
“Imagine the ripple effect of change young people can create in our communities if they have learned how to be daring, confident, empowered — and, most importantly, true to themselves.”
